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The Thief and the Cobbler is an animated fantasy film co-written and directed by Richard Williams, [4] who intended it to be his magnum opus and a milestone in the animated medium. Originally devised in the 1960s, the film was in and out of production for nearly three decades due to independent funding and ambitiously complex animation.
Richard Edmund Williams (né Lane; March 19, 1933 – August 16, 2019) was a Canadian-British animator, voice actor, and painter.A three-time Academy Award winner, he is best known as the animation director on Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) -- for which he won two Academy Awards—and as the director of his unfinished feature film The Thief and the Cobbler (1993). [1]
Series Title Description Feature film: The Thief and the Cobbler: Following his success with Who Framed Roger Rabbit in 1988, Richard Williams and Warner Bros. negotiated a funding and a distribution deal for his long in-development feature, which included a $25 million marketing budget. [1]
Persistence of Vision is a 2012 documentary film based on animator Richard Williams' ill-fated attempts to produce his film The Thief and the Cobbler. Directed by Kevin Schreck, its tagline is "the untold story of the greatest animated film never made". The film premiered in Canada on 4 October 2012 at the Vancouver International Film Festival.
The Thief and the Cobbler: 1993: 29: Work began in 1964 and was released in an unfinished state in 1993. [84] Tiefland: 1954: 4: Script work began in 1934, shooting lasted from 1940 to 1944, and the film was finally shown in 1954. [85] The Tragedy of Man: 2011: 23
The Thief and the Cobbler; A Thousand and One Nights (1969 film) This page was last edited on 11 September 2023, at 02:48 (UTC). ...
The 1995 animated film The Thief and the Cobbler features a chase sequence taking place within set pieces loosely based on Escher's works. [24] In Christopher Nolan's 2010 film Inception, Arthur demonstrates to Ariadne how to make unbreakable mental mazes by constructing infinite structures.
He was also the narrator in the original version (and recobbled cut) of Richard Williams' unfinished animated project, The Thief and the Cobbler (1993). At the age of 80 Felix Aylmer played a villain in an episode of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) entitled " It's Supposed to be Thicker than Water ".